but on "make" I still run into the same error.
Fabien has added a macro to seek the boost library on configure, but the error remains.

mkinstalldirs

A file of "mkinstalldirs" is included in 0.8.2 tar ball. I think that it only have to be copied for svn version. And in Ubnutu 6.10, directory which exist "mkinstalldirs" is /usr/share/automake-1.9/.--Sigma 02:46, 7 February 2007 (PST)

Barry's GL file problems on Ubuntu

gl.h and glext.h need to be present in /usr/include/GL. On one install this was missing, and for some reason the package which provides them - mesa-common-dev - mysteriously didn't. In this case, fetching the source with "apt-get source mesa-common-dev" and manually copying the files worked. A bug in the original mesa driver files gave some display problems. down loading the mesalib-6.5.2.tar from www.mesa3d.org, recompiling and installing the libraries also removed the problem.

If trouble is experienced in installing the libboost-thread-dev and libboost-filesystem-dev, they are held in the universe repository. Enable this repository in the Synaptic package manager - settings menu-repositories.